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Too far back for me ,but it had to be Airfix...................
Fleshy....................

fleshpedler wrote: Too far back for me ,but it had to be Airfix...................
Fleshy....................

lol, I am getting that feeling too and I am 15 years younger than you are Pete,

My first model at age 7 was a 1/72 Airfix Stug. It came in a plastic bag with a cardboard header card and those nasty soft plastic tracks that never fitted. I remember going to the model shop every couple of weeks for something diffrent, God I must have spent half my childhood ( and all my pocket money ) in there and built tanks, boats, planes, cars, spaceships and figures galore. I will say though we had some very good model shops over the years but now just one is left. So much for progress 
Alan

At the age of 8, my first model was a Boulton Paul Defiant Made by Airfix...53 years ago. It came in a plastic bag with the cardboard picture on the top and it cost 2 shillings and six pence...glue was extra. Because the model was made in black plastic, I cheated and didnt paint it, I just applied the transfers to the plastic.

12 years ago I bought a boat on the Norfolk Broads. One day I got lost in the back streets of Norwich and stopped outside a closed furnature factory near the football ground to check my map( before you ask I was walking not floating at the time.)

On the wall right next to where I was standing, was a plaque stating that the Boulton Paul Defiant was made in this factory during the war. It was made of wood, and the wood was brought to the factory by ship up the Broads. These wood ships used to moor where I had my boat moored that day....spooky eh.

Strange how life goes in circles innit?

Mike

my first model was a 1/144 airfix spitfire it cost me £1.49 i have still got it minus its prop blades undercarage and tail

ooo this is a toughie, first ever model I made was a house out of those things like lego but were made of bakerlight for my soldiers to fight around, was prolly about 6-7, first kit was probably an Airfix plaggy bag job, not long after. made alsorts of kits, remember the Stephensons rocket train I got the wheels going round and was really pleased with the results, made most of the airfix and matchbox kits at the time. I remember getting a cheap lancaster bomber model, was some cheapo russian company, I forget the name, any how I built it up had it on my ceiling then decided to set the engine cowls on fire and lob it out the masonette window, it looked awesome as the black plaggy smoke billowed out from it as it crashed down into the ground 

My first model was a airfix biplane no im not giving away my age but it did come in a plastic bag I must have been about 7 because my grandad built models for me back then and he died when I was 8. I built models mostly airfix until I was 13 when I started the female kind I still have a few of them left as well as my 32nd scale soldiers which my boys played with.
Stevie

I would've been 6 or 7 and my first model was either the Airfix 1/72nd Spitfire with an attempt and the brwon/green/duck egg blue camo or the 1/72 Apollo Luna Lander.

Having seen both models again recently I cant believe how small the Spitfire is in 1/72 or how god awfully wrong the LEM paint scheme was  ::) Hadnt they heard of Mylar?

I'M sure it was a battle ship,in 1968 I believe or 1969 we went to Florida every year and hurricane camill had hit the coast,well the battleship ALABAMA was and still is moored in Mobile Bay,which is near the state line with Florida,well ships,and boats were every where and their sat the ALABAMA,UN moved,slightly damaged,and I just thought how massive,powerfull that ship had to be,everything else was trashed,but not her.I saved my money and built a revell,before monogram anyway I built the Alabama.She is now well maintained and they have expanded the park,tanks,aircraft(B-52)and a submarine.Great place to visit.One thing about America,we have some great museums.If I'M correct the 4-Iowa class ships,Alabama,North Carolina,Texas,Massachusetts are all museum ships.plus many others but we have a bigger Battle fleet mothballed as museum than we had at the German surrender in WW-I.And Texas built in 1911 or 1912 is the only first generation dreadnought left and I believe she was at the German surrender.Sax

We've got some pritty good ones in the UK. RAF Hendon, Duxford, Bovington, Hms Belfast, on the Themes, HMS Victory and warrior at portsmouth and countless, small privatley owned ones, like Cobbaton. I try and get my kids to as many as I can. I feel they need to learn about what happend all those years ago, espescialy as there is a large militery background in my family, there's even a victoria cross, won during the colinisation of India.